NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden went further last week advising those concerned about their privacy to 'get rid of Dropbox' and cease using Facebook and Google.ĭropbox is a six-year-old Silicon Valley startup that boasts more than 200 million users. Mr Thompson said it was difficult for consumers to remember multiple passwords for so many online services and recommended using a password vault or manager – an inexpensive security measure that encrypts passwords on your devices. Mr Mityagin reiterated that customers should use different passwords for different services and urged them to turn on two-step verification, which requires logging in with a security code sent to your phone when accessing your account from a new device. allowing people to access to other services using their Google account. Other cloud storage services had not been quite as aggressive at pushing third-party sign-on as Dropbox, Mr Thompson said, although Google – which has Google Drive – was 'guilty' of pushing its accounts 'the other way', i.e. The poster added instructions for affected users to pay with Bitcoin and send them an 'exclude' email if they wanted their credentials removed from public view.ĭropbox's Mr Mityagin said in an update to his blog entry on Tuesday night that the company had checked 'a subsequent list' of login credentials and found that none of the details were associated with Dropbox accounts.ĭespite Mr Mityagin reassuring account holders the company automatically resets user passwords whenever 'suspicious activity' occurred, an apparently benevolent Pastebin user claimed to have run a script to 'unhack' the leaked accounts by changing their passwords. The post claimed 90 per cent of the supposed Dropbox accounts contained files that were 'NSFW' – online slang for 'not safe for work', referring to content that is unsuitable to be viewed in public, such as that containing nudity, or is pornographic or profane. NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden thinks consumers should scrap services like Dropbox altogether.

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